Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Energy Storage

Redwood Materials

2000

McCarran, NV

Posted on: 2026-07-27

Category: materials

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Redwood Materials is an American clean energy company headquartered in Sparks, Nevada, focused on securing domestic supplies of critical battery materials and providing large-scale energy storage solutions. The company recycles end-of-life batteries to recover lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper, creating one of the largest domestic sources of these critical minerals in the United States. Its operations support the broader transition away from reliance on foreign supply chains for materials essential to electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Through its Redwood Energy division, the company designs, integrates, and deploys large-scale energy storage systems for data centers and the national grid, utilizing both new and repurposed batteries to deliver cost-effective solutions. Redwood Materials partners with major automotive, technology, and energy companies including Volkswagen Group of America, Panasonic, GM Ultium Cells, Toyota, BMW, Amazon, Volvo, and Southern Company, reflecting its central role in the emerging domestic battery supply chain. Founded by former Tesla Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel, Redwood Materials was established with the mission of building a circular economy for batteries, reducing waste, lowering the carbon footprint of energy storage, and strengthening American energy independence. The company holds ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certifications, underscoring its commitment to occupational health, safety, and environmental management standards.

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Manufacturing Quality Engineer

Redwood is looking for a highly motivated Quality Engineer with broad experience across incoming quality, process quality, and customer-facing quality activities. A primary objective of this role will be to drive the identification, prioritization, and mitigation of quality risks throughout the operations. Additionally, the Quality Engineer is expected to support the development, deployment, and active improvement of critical quality system elements.

Responsibilities will include:

Develop process and product quality standards and quality plans to ensure products will consistently meet the expectations of our customers
Lead the development of DFMEAs, PFMEAs, Process Control Plans, and test/inspection procedures to identify, prioritize and mitigate quality risks to the product
Coordinate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement critical quality processes and to achieve quality objectives
Execute process and product quality readiness tasks for production ramp-up
Ensure quality standards are developed, communicated, and upheld for all actions related to manufacturing the product
Lead cross-functional problem-solving teams to facilitate swift and effective issue resolution, including root cause investigations using quality tools and the development, implementation, and validation of corrective and preventive actions
Work closely with the quality systems team to follow standards and processes

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field
3+ years of experience in a quality role
Experience with power electronics or battery technologies
Knowledge and experience leading structured problem-solving methodologies
Experience with the development and use of quality tools as well as other quality system elements
Adept with process data acquisition and quality analysis tools
Proficient in statistical methods and ability to apply them
Excellent written and verbal communication skill
Ability to execute with a calm and collaborative urgency
A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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